#moments

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alert #am #aware #bestows #contentment

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#great #great moments #moments

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#great #great moments #made #manifested #may

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity. ↗

— George W. Bush

#moments #my soul #popularity #proudest #sake

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#cool #geeky #got #guess #i

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#because #complete #completely #dark #gets

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52. ↗

— Boris Vian

#dizzy #ella #ellington #great #great moments

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#certain #help #lives #moments #need

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. ↗

— Brian Cox

#build #careers #feisty #get #go